The Boy In The Black Hoodie

Chapter 23

"Morning" I smile to mom who is sitting on the couch, watching modern family.

"Hey sweetie, how was the hike yesterday!?" she asks, taking a bite of her apple. "It was really good, especially when we went swimming" I tell her as I pour muesli into my bowl and then open the fridge to get the yogurt.

"Mmmm, it's always been amazing to swim in such fresh water, although it's quite cold" I take a seat next to her.

"Yeah, we didn't swim for too long."

"Hows Tyler?" she asks, I turn my attention from the TV. I'm not even sure. He doesn't hang out with us anymore. We spoke yesterday at dinner a bit, I should actually check up on him next time we talk.

"I don't know, I think he's fine" I shrug.  "I think he met someone" she tells me, surprising me.

"Why would you think that"

"He doesn't spend much time here anymore and I swear there was someone in his room yesterday" she chuckles. "Mom" I laugh, "He appreciates everything you do for him you know". "I know, he tells me too much actually, but I really enjoy him being here. I'd do anything for Anne," She smiles, making me smile. "I know you would" I give her a hug.

"When's Kade coming over again" she asks, pulling away. "Like in an hour to pick me up, I told him I want to take him to the castle" there's an old Castle built next it a pretty dam on the side of a forest where alot of people go walking. There's also activities to do there and a nice restaurant. Plus the weather is amazing today.

"Aww, I'm jealous, just don't tell Damien!" she chuckles. Damien is obsessed with playing the mini putt putt golf coarse. He loves it so much, for he's last birthday he got a whole bag of different clubs. He takes on after dad. "You can actually come along if you want, I'm sure Kade won't mind" I tell her.

"No, No. You enjoy it with Kade," she frowns and I give her a 'really?' look.
"Damien will freak out, he deserves to have some fun" I convince her and she sighs. "Damien!!!" I call and she scolds me. Within seconds he comes running around the corner. "Put on shorts and a T-shirt because we're going to the castle!!" I tell him excitedly and his expression is priceless. "Yayyy" he runs back to his room.

"Get ready" I smile at her as I leave the living room.

I run up the stairs and into my room. I quickly take off my pajamas and climb into the shower.

I decide to wear my blue denim short along with a black belt. Matched with a black cropped strap top.

I straighten my hair and the French plait it the top of my hair and tie it into a ponytail, leaving the rest of my hair loose. I hear the sound of a motorbike stop out side my house and I look of the window to see Kade climbing off of it.

I quickly jog down the stairs and open the door before he can ring the bell. "Hi" he smiles at me and hands me a bouquet of sunflowers. He was wearing a dark green silk button shirt with black Jean shorts that met at his knees. Along with white Levi takkies.

"Aww, thank you" I smile at him and take the flowers. "Come in" I take his hand and lead him through the door. I quickly grab a vase and place the flowers in it.

When I turn around Kade is standing right behind me with our faces inches apart. He lifts me up onto the counter and slightly smirks at me, causing my cheeks to heat up. He pulls me closer to the edge, up against him and looks into my eyes. He bits his bottom lip slightly and looks down at my lips. I move closer to him and unite our lips. I inhale sharply as our lips move in sync. He slides his right hand up my thigh and his left hand up the slide of my waist.

"Maybe it's in the kitch- Diana!" the surprise in my moms voices startles us and we instantly pull away. I jump off of the counter and turn towards her. She was covering Damien's eyes. I turn to see Kade, his cheeks are red from embarrassment and his chest was moving rapidly up and down.

"There they are by the couch" she tells Damien, chuckling. "Hello Kade" she smiles. "Hello Mrs J- Susan" he corrects himself at my moms glare. She chuckles. He moves to give her a hug and she hugs him back.

"I'm sorry about what happened... now" he says hesitantly. "Agh it's fine, I just prefer if you are more pg around Damien, it's anyway not the first tim-". "Mom" I try to stop her but she already said too much. "I'm gonna put on my shoes" I tell her and take Kades hand.

Once I reach my room and pull Kade inside. He takes a seat on my bed and I take a pair of socks out of my cupboard draw. "What did your mom mean when she said 'not the first time' " I hear the annoyance in his voice.

"Kade, please it's noth-" I try to convince him to forget about it but it fails. "It's not nothing Diana! Theres a vision of you and another dude in my head and it's making me fucking pissed" he raises his voice slightly and I turn towards him to see that he actually looks angry. Oh shit. I move to close the door and the take a seat next to him on my bed.

"Sorry I just- My ex and I were kissing on the couch and my mom also walked in on us too" I tell him, not meeting his eyes. "Please don't be upset, it doesn't matter, what matters is that it's in the past and I have you now, who is a hundred times better than he ever was. And I honestly feel things for you that I didn't even know the human body was capable of feeling. It's like something so much more than just love, please just forget about what my mom said" I meet his eyes this time and see that his expression is lightened and he was kind of smiling at me.

"Sorry" he tucks a strand of hair behind my ear and  out of my face. "I love you too, and I also feel all those exact things you just said. It consumes me, you consume me" he tells me. I smile at him and then place a light kiss onto his lips.

After putting on my shoes, Kade says it cool that mom and Damien come along and not long after we are on our way there in my moms car.

We arrive there shortly, Damien squeals in excitement as he climbs out. Kade follows him out and I move to climb out as well. "I'm sorry about earlier," my moms voice stops me from opening the door further and I turn to face her. "Don't worry it's fine, just, try not to do it again?" I question and she nods. "Thanks".

"Also, here's some money. I'm going to go with Damien to the golf so you guys go ahead and just let me know when you're done" she smiles and hands me some cash.

"Thank you," I kiss her cheek and we both climb out.

"Let's goo" Damien pulls moms hand and she follows him."See you guys" she chuckles and waves goodbye.

"I honestly didn't expect this place, you explained it very poorly" Kade states taking my hand. "I thought we were going sightseeing or some shit, let alone here we are at a beautiful dam with thousands of tall trees, paddle-boats, lively restaurants and all" he makes me chuckle.

"To be fair I didn't say we were going sightseeing" I state as we walk away from the car.

"True. So what is plan?" he looks over at me. We walk through the path split by the trees. "I was thinking we could like first do the walk and then go for lunch or something".

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"Come on" Kade pulls my hand and we semi-run off the path at the corner and into the woods. The feeling I get when he takes my hand, pulling me is like a rush of resfeber. A mix of anxiety and anticipation. We stop at a tree house that I have never noticed before. "Let's go up there".

"This is gonna break if you climb up it" I state, shaking the brittle  ladder.
"I know, we're gonna climb" he oatts the log above him and I walk closer. He grabs my waist, lifting me up above his head and onto the tree, causing me to shriek. He chuckles and I offer him my hand and he pushes himself up with the other. We climb in from the small window. "It looked cooler from outside" he states, griping his one hand onto the pillar above him, causing his muscles to tense. "Yeah let's go, I don't know if we can even be here" I chuckle and he climbs out the window again.

He jumps down and then stops me from jumping. "I don't you to fall with your clumsiness. Just stand on my shoulder and I will help you down" he chuckles, turning around holding his one arm up to help me. "I'm not gonna ruin your shirt" I move my feet past his head and sit on his shoulders. "It's just a shirt," he tilts his head back to look me in the eyes. "But you look so good in it" I brush his hair out of his eyes with my fingers and move forward to kiss him.